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"Don’t look like they was so tough they had to sneak up on th’ dipper to take a drink, do they now?" Donally asked of the room at large. "Don’t never judge no hoss by his coat an’ curryin’," Anse retorted. "I don’t, son. I never do," Nye replied. "As far as I’m concerned, you’re both so wild they have to tie a foot up when they give you a haircut.
If he wants a shave or a haircut, the barber is in the next car. If he wants to view the scenery en route, the observation car is but a few steps away.
I had seen several barber's signs but I decided to walk on for quite a distance beyond my apartment. I did not want to confront a barber who had known Karl Armstadt, for barbers deal critically in the matter of heads and faces. At last I picked out a shop. I entered and asked for a haircut.
This dark assertion will be illuminated later on. Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table. "Don't make any mistake, Dell," he said, "about me. I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less. But if you'll unwrap that package you may see why you had me going a while at first."
It must grow steadily count on it for that! until for a brief period it is 'just right, æsthetically suited to the contour of his face and the cut of his features, and beginning already imperceptibly to grow too long again. Soon this growth becomes visible, and the man begins to worry. 'I must go to the barber, he says in a harassed way. 'I must get a haircut. But the days pass.
They will be laid before you to-morrow at eleven. You will miss another day. Twice shall the barber tweak the helpless nose of a Blinker. Be thankful that your sorrows do not embrace a haircut." "If," said Blinker, rising, "the act did not involve more signing of papers I would take my business out of your hands at once. Give me a cigar, please."
So now it stood nearly at shoulder length. He told me he had one and a half months' experience in hair cutting. I was thus persuaded to take up his offer of a "free" haircut in the "latest style". I explained in great detail to Tharaq how I wanted it cut and he nodded attentively making a few suggestions here and there. Then he started to work with the scissors, cutting and shaving here and there.
"Our friends from Taku, from the ruined temple, from Tientsin, from the farm house loaded with gunpowder, and from the tea house," laughed Ned. "Do you recognize the fellow with his disguise off? Jimmie gave him a haircut and shave just now." "And you have captured them?" "It doesn't look as if they had captured us," Jimmie broke in. "But how, when, why?" "All of that!" grinned Jimmie.
Like the boy he was at heart, he was perfectly willing to make good resolutions all of which were more or less theoretical and left to a kindly Providence to keep intact for him. So here he was, after we had pried him loose from his last predicament, perfectly optimistic under his fresh haircut, and thinking the traffic cops would not remember him.
He wondered, with a miserable pang, where she came to on her husband’s coat and with the wonder his surging strength surged suddenly out to sea again and left him feeling like Samson when he awoke to the realization of his haircut. "Dinner’s very late," she said, quite as if life presented no problem whatever; "you see, it’s the first big company in the house.
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